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ruche: tags: [fashion]

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Definition:

1. A plaited, quilled, or goffered strip of lace, net, ribbon, or other material, -- used in place of collars or cuffs, and as a trimming for women's dresses and bonnets.
2. A pile of arched tiles, used to catch and retain oyster spawn.

Noah Webster. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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also spelled rucked, rouche

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in a jacket with sleeves high on the shoulders, with yellow ruches on her bosom, and with stripes running in unusual directions on her skirt, she seemed to herself horrible and disgusting.

Anton Chekhov. The Wife and other stories

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The neckline and the belled sleeves were heavily ruched with lace, as was the embroidered overskirt of chocolate-brown velvet.

Diana Gabaldon. Outlander (1991)

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could she work a ruched teacosy with embroidered floral design for him as a present

James Joyce. Ulysses

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She reappeared in under a minute dressed in a tight-fitting silk rucked bathing dress.

Agatha Christie. And Then There Were None. p.140 (1939)